Krea

Account Executive, API + Open Source at Krea (San Francisco, CA)

Krea· San Francisco, CA·

Role details

Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time

Job description

ABOUT KREA

At Krea, we are building next-generation AI creative tools.

We're dedicated to making AI intuitive and controllable for creatives - our mission is to build tools that empower human creativity, not replace it. We believe AI is a new medium that allows us to express ourselves through various formats - text, images, video, sound, and even 3D. We're building better, smarter, and more controllable tools to harness this medium. We recently took this a step forward with the launch of Krea 2 krea.ai/krea-2-image-model, our first foundation model, built completely from scratch for aesthetic diversity and stylistic control.

We've raised over $83M and are backed by world-class investors such as a16z, Bain Capital, and Abstract. We work full-time and in-person at our waterfront office in San Francisco. We care about creativity: our team includes musicians, designers, visual artists, and engineers.

THIS ROLE

We need someone to sell Krea's models directly to other companies, either through our API or as open-weight models they self-host. Your buyer is a developer or product team building something on top of Krea, not a creator using the app. You'll own this from the first conversation to the signed deal.

It's a new motion for us, so you'll be figuring out a lot of it as you go.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

  • Find and close deals with companies who want to use Krea's models in their own products
  • Talk to developers and technical teams, understand what they're building, and help them figure out the right setup — API, self-hosted, custom license
  • Negotiate and close API and licensing deals, including bespoke enterprise terms
  • Work with product and engineering when a deal needs something nonstandard
  • Tell us what's actually blocking deals — pricing, licensing, missing features — so we can fix it

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • You've closed B2B deals before, ideally to developers or technical teams
  • You've sold API, developer, or infrastructure products, so you're not scared of a conversation about rate limits or licensing terms
  • You can talk to an engineer about how our models work without a solutions engineer holding your hand
  • You're fine building process instead of following one

NICE TO HAVE

  • You've sold AI models or ML infrastructure before
  • You know your way around open-source/open-weight licensing
  • You already know people at AI startups or companies building on generative media
  • You're into image/video generation as a space

WHAT WE OFFER

  • Team: Work alongside a world-class team building the future of AI creative tooling
  • Impact: Significant scope and company-wide impact
  • Competitive compensation: generous salary & equity packages
  • Health & wellness: 100% health & 99% dental/vision insurance premiums covered for employees, health FSA accounts, & long-term disability coverage
  • Time off: Flexible PTO policy
  • Financial planning: 401k with a 4% company-sponsored match
  • Meals in the office: breakfast, lunch, dinner - you name it, we'll cover it
  • Transit: Ubers covered to & from the office
  • Sponsorship: We're open to sponsoring international visas where we can (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H-1B, O-1, E-3).
  • And more!

Please note the above benefits & perks are for full-time employees

Why work at Krea

  • Culture: Small, highly talented team (currently 17) that lives and breathes creativity – founders and many team members are musicians, poets, designers, videographers; “The team behind Krea is the work of a small, talented group of imaginative, incredibly dedicated people.”
  • Engineering & research: Engineers from MIT, Princeton, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago; authors of state‑of‑the‑art models (Lumina, Anifusion). Freedom to do own research after building products for the community.
  • Work environment: New office with Pacific Ocean views in San Francisco; majority of team shares a living space (noted early‑stage).
  • Velocity: Weekly Thursday releases, exposure to cutting‑edge AI models, direct impact on a product used by millions.
  • Open roles: Listed at jobs.ashbyhq.com/krea. Ideal candidate is “deeply technical, artistically opinionated.”

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